Hardly anyone is allowed to cross state or regional borders. Truck drivers are exempt, including removalists People in shopping centres and pharmacist are masked, but may not be wearing a mask correctly

I agree with you. The evidence is quite clear that a young person will have a way higher chance if dying of astra zenica than covid

Vic current lockdown is pretty similar except public transport is still running and we have a 5 km limit.

Could you just buy pumpkin and boil it It is the easiest thing to grow.

And yet there are lots if reports from Sydney of people still visiting relatives, groups of people at the beach, people going shopping every single day etc. All this movement doesn't stop spreading

It was a huge pain here. Huge But it worked. Don't forget that Melbourne had a time with over 700 cases a day and dozens of deaths. If people don't move at all it stops spreading.

Calling something an emergancy results in fu ding be comi g available. More powers for things to get done that would usually involve lots of red tape etc.

Listen to the Vic premier. He has some words to Sydney national emergency. He is glad to give some advice on how Vic got on top of it last year.

They are not recommending it for people under 60 atm. but at the same time some politicians are telling people they should take it and do their bit to help the country. in almost the same breath they say that you will be taking it "at your own risk."" which really inspires confidence Also there isn't much else available

but did it work?

my grandma told me when I was a child to pee on my feet to get rid of my chilblains . It worked! they went away within a few days. Never underestimate the power of pee

that sounds like a really nice dream even if it was in lockdown

2 of my adult boys are keen shark fishermen . they paddles out into a flat bit of plastic that they tell me is called a sea kayak to drop the bait at the end of the fishing line right on dusk. Then paddle back in and wait for the shark to take the bait. they use eels as bait . Once the shark is hooked it can take well over an hour to bring the shark in. After they beach the shark they measure it. Take a photo and release the shark back into the water. I asked them how do they release it. They said that is easy. They reach into the shark mouth and remove the hook. They tell me once the shark is on the beach it cannot move at all. I dare not ask them how they release them.

My MIL grew up in Germany. she is 99 during the war she was working as some kind of office girl in Berlin. she told me that the one day all the office staff worked frantically to shift mountains of paperwork to another building to keep it safe. that night the building that they shifted all the paperwork to was bombed My FIL, now deceased was a soldier in the German army. he was just 18 and sent to North Africa. He said he they spend all their day marching, and dug a hollow in the ground to sleep in at night. One day , when they woke up anyone in command was gone. all that was left were the young guys. he said they didn't know what to do. They had no food. They walked to the coast (I don't know how long it took them ) then used their hand grenades to fish. They thought of waiving down a ship but couldn't work out how to tell which ships were on which side. they dug trenches and were hiding in the trenches. One morning they woke to the sound of an English officer yelling the war is over for you boys come out. He said they were so relieved to have been found and have food etc. He spent the rest of the war in POW camps in first Morocco then Scotland. He said being a POW saved his life. He was from East Prussia. He said every single boy and man from his village was killed. Every single one. He was the only male from there to survive

Hugs hugs and more hugs I have lived that nightmare. It is awful

Reporter asks: "What did that case do? What sort of things?" Thanks. Will look up the exact town. East gipps is my area

I have heard it is the temperature it has to be stored at.

it is very common for young children to want to hear the same story over and over again personally I prefer Peter Rabbit to We are Going on a Bear hunt.. Which was the favourite of one of my children. I can still recite the whole book

Ausmum I see there are 6 more cases for your state this afternoon thinking of you

I don't think any airline is They just jack the ticket price way up. I have heard figures of between $11k and $30k for a one way ticket to Australia

Thanks Ausmum. I was just coming to post exactly that

Mostly available is Astrca Zeneca as it is made in Australia. But because there was so many blood clots it isn't advised for anyone under 60 to take it here. As the risk of blood lots is considered higher than the risk of dying of covid in people under 60

Australia is at 11% It is mostly older than 60

I didn't think of that.

some airlines have been trying to pressure Australia to open up again. skeptical me thinks this is an airline company trying to force the issue also the current covid crisis here in Australia that has currently 3 states in lockdown originated from American flight crew in transit in Australia. Also because so many outbreaks from hotel quarantine were happening all the states of Australia petitioned to have the numbers of people coming into Australia capped at 3000 per week. Better for the whole country to have less people arriving and less lockdowns was the theory - but that was just before the whole thing went bottom up in Sydney. Australian borders are closed- only citizens or residence are allowed into the country - unless you are a celebrity or a sports star they seem to have different rules. but all arrivals have to do 14 days quarantine in a special hotel